Danica Patrick’s race ended early last week with a crash 39 laps into the 100-lap race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

While her race was over at the time, her day was not.

Patrick spent much of the rest of the afternoon in her hauler talking with crew chief Tony Eury Jr., who also is a co-owner at JR Motorsports.

While Patrick didn’t reveal many details of the talk, she did think it would help create a different attitude this weekend for the Nationwide Series race at Iowa Speedway.

“We need to definitely get on a good stretch here and regroup and get positive and just kind of get back to basics and stop trying so hard if that makes sense,” Patrick said Friday prior to practice for Saturday night’s U.S. Cellular 250.

“There’s been a general amount of frustration. We both have said that we have higher expectations over time and we definitely haven’t had the results to show for that as far as the finishes go.”

So they talked – not a closed-door session as engineers and others on the team went in-and-out of the hauler – as they assessed the season with Patrick 10th in the series standings with 14 races left in the season.

“(Eury Jr.) is competitive, he wants to do well and so do I,” Patrick said. “Getting frustrated is not the way to do it. I don’t think you’re going to see too much more of that frustration that I feel like has been going on for a while.

“That’s just as a result of talking through things and getting a new gameplan and attitude.”

That gameplan includes a focus on solid consistent laps instead of flat-out speed, Patrick said.

“One lap doesn’t get you very far in the race,” Patrick said. “What’s really important is putting a whole run together and not falling off and not having the car go dramatically one way or another (during a run). … I’m going to focus more on the consistency of the car as opposed to the ultimate speed.”

Iowa is the place where Patrick felt her season really go south in May. She had come off three top-13 finishes in her last four races and started ninth before a flat tire resulted in an accident and a 30th-place finish.

That started a string where she wrecked in six of the last 10 races.

“It was the beginning of quite a bad stretch that’s been going until now,” she said. “It doesn’t mean that I am going to let that get me down.”